• Nevada's total population: 488,163
• Tourism becomes Nevada's largest industry
• King's Castle (now Hyatt Tahoe) Hotel-Casino opens at Incline, North Lake Tahoe

• Union Plaza Hotel-Casino opens in Downtown Las Vegas

• Official “Black Book” criteria established

• MGM Grand Hotel-Casino (now Bally's Las Vegas) opens on Las Vegas Strip
• Eldorado Hotel-Casino opens in Reno
• Harrah's becomes the first gaming company listed on the New York Stock Exchange

• Nevada gaming revenue tops $1 billion; gaming-related taxes pays 50 percent of state budget with 30% in related taxes - liquor, cigarettes, gas
• Nevada State Legislature lowers sports betting tax, allowing the proliferation of casino-based sports books/betting
• Union Plaza Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas opens state's first legal casino-based sports book
• Sundowner Hotel-Casino opens in Reno
• California Hotel-Casino and Nevada Hotel-Casino built in Downtown Las Vegas

• Stardust Hotel & Casino opens legendary sports book
• Bingo Palace opens west of the Las Vegas Strip, the beginnings of the Station Casinos empire
• Fitzgeralds Hotel-Casino opens in Reno

• Gaming revenues in Clark County tops $1 billion
• Internal Revenue Service began to require hotel-casinos to report winnings of gamblers to federal authorities

• Park Tahoe (now Caesars Tahoe) Hotel-Casino opens at South Shore, Lake Tahoe

• Vegas World opens on Las Vegas Blvd.
• Imperial Palace opens on Las Vegas Strip
• Barbary Coast opens on Las Vegas Strip
• IGT introduces first “draw poker” machine

Sources: Nevada Historical Society; Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority; Michael Green (Community College of Southern Nevada); David Schwartz (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Center for Gaming Research); “Roll The Bones: The History of Gambling” by David Schwartz; Gotham Books, 2006; and Nevada Magazine, March 2006.